Marie Trintignant Dies From Head Injuries

LATEST: French actress Marie Trintignant (corr) has died from massive head
injuries after an alleged beating by her boyfiend.

Trintignant's lawyer GEORGES KIEJMAN (corr) says the 41-year-old passed
away at the HARTMANN CLINIC in Neuilly-sur-Seine, an eastern suburb of Paris,
after being flown back France from Lithuania in a coma.

Trintignant had been filming a TV movie with her director mother NADINE
TRINTIGNANT.

She had been in a coma since last Sunday (27JUL03), after an alleged
altercation with rocker boyfriend Bertrand Cantat (corr), 39, left them both in
hospital.

Cantat - who sings in popular French band NOIR DESIR - is in detention for
two weeks while Lithuanian cops investigate the incident, and is now a prime
suspect in the murder investigation, after being detained on "suspicion of
causing bodily
injury".

Trintignant, a mother of four, was flown back to France from Vilnius at
the request of her family.